‘We’re a tiny business, it’s insane’: Belfast pizza sensation named among Ireland’s top restaurants

East Belfast pizza shop Flout has been named one of Ireland’s top 100 restaurants

Pete Thompson with his latest Guinness-inspired pizza

Maxie Swain

For the second year in a row, a tiny pizzeria that only opens 12 hours a week and seats just six people has taken its place among ‘Ireland’s top 100 restaurants’.

An annual culinary countdown of the creme de la creme running since 1992, the 2024 cut released last weekend is a highlights reel of the hottest dining rooms here and now across the island — and a feather in the cap for those kitchen gods and goddesses behind the pass.